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assize

Noun CEFR B1
əˈsaɪz

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of assize.
  2. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
  3. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
  4. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
  5. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
  6. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
  7. A measure, dimension, or size.

Equivalents

5 more languages
Bosanskisisa
Galegosisa
Hrvatskisisa
Latinaassisa
Српскиsisa

Examples

“the assize of bread and other provisions”
“rent⟳ of assize”
“the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole”
“an hundred cubits high by just assize”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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